INFIRMITIES is an INDONESIAN extreme metal band from South east Bandung ,west java. The group consists of vocalist Robby, guitarists Angga ,drummer Jo and bassist Morghin. Formed in 2000, the band has released 9 full-length studio tracks, one EP and one music videos. The group has been met with a great amount of praise and favorable reviews while even during 2001 .
INFIRMITIES were founded in 1999 in Bandung and were at that time, a side-project of many of the members of other groups. The band performed their first show at a local area that time, the line-up consisted of the members Angga as guitarists, Morghin as bassist, Jo as drummer and two vocalists, Andri and Robby. Shortly after their first performance, Andri was fired from the band and they released their first demo the following year.They released their second demo in 2002. By the proceeding year, the members took the band more seriously and were no-longer deemed as a side project, they would then advance to record their third and final demo in 2006 after the band recorded and released their first public studio quality material entitled . First Voice, Andri departed from the band in 2004 and was replaced by Robby who was the former vocalist for the bands Obby conspiracy and Emotional Rescue before his joining. At this point INFIRMITIES were beginning to gain a wide range of friends through out the places. While returning back home from the continuous stage, the band published the song " Terperanjat " and released the cover on their limited edition "GBT compilation" single as well as track all during the same year , placed with other heavy band such INJECTED , KRANG , VISION OF ATLANTIS ( USA ) and etc .
A year later INFIRMITIES released Bintang terbalik on June 30, 2002 through Media.The opening track from the epic sound stream om sampling by the bands called ISP form Malang was released as a digital download-only which includes the original song. A music video was produced for the song as well and made its debut premiere .
By 2004, INFIRMITIES began preparing their full-length album, the band confirmed that the new album would be titled FEOTICE MAGGOT COLONY Working titles for the album were "God mouth force wide open", "Sebelas dan tiga angka enam" and "Dead massonic viewer". When asked by Ris Ris R.A.P The vocals band Krang!, He revealed that the album's lyrical themes would feature more of the personal topics that Feotice maggot colony in-concept rather than the anti-religious theme that The Massonic dead viewer held. Ris Ris explained "I still have the same beliefs and same views, but I'm more open to everything. At this point in my life, I don't see the good in making people hate you for something you say. such as the record [Feotice maggot colony] is for everybody." The song "Bintang terbalik" premiered on radio station Liquid Metal on May 13, 2006 .
Through the songs an extreme musical genres such as black metal, grindcore, and death metal elements can be seen in the varied speed changes and complex time signatures in the band's music. The vocals of Robby are frequently fluctuating between death growls and high-pitched screamed vocals used in black metal. The drumming is very fast-paced, grindcore influenced, and employs a liberal use of double bass drumming and blast beats .
The band members themselves have stated that they are influenced from groups such as Vision of disorder , Bloodsimple , Devil driver, The red chord, Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation,Necrophagist, Despised Icon, Slipknot, White chapel,veil of maya and Through the eyes of the dead .
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